THOUSAND
ATTEND MUTING
June W.-IHim thousand
liuiwi of Surry sad adjoin
hol.lm* a gnat mass
in their own w ipwrtiw
Kara today, listened with
interest ami ratkuiaaa to
• gnat addrea* by Oltoer 4. Seeds,
head d the Tri-State To
Aiiocllttew, tod tho rvfovts of
of other general district
nd county officials.
The great cordiality and tenure
res ehowa by tlx torn of
idtitke MtkMiaaa of the
of tobacco gmwoti who
in their own
Attorney J. T. Hendren,
i of WtlMMM.
repreaentativee of the asso
front Sorry, Yadkin, Stoke*,
nd Guilford counties, who
cheering new* of the pro
i of the »iga-up campaign*
K. A. Freeman, ipiaHag far Sorry,
declared the coonty organisation nam
beted ZfiOO tobecce growers, while
A. 8. Speer spoke for 760 or mote
IHiwwi of Yadkin. 1. M. Callaway,
of Guilford, the world's largest to
bacco grower, pledged himself and 224
-out of his 2SS tenants ee Jignsrs of
son and F. D. Williams, experts in
Iks light aad dark Uef
Interesting and
tm the ■stlipfa of
aad selling of tcbacoc. Following the
i of Dietrict Director A. L.
r. of the Twelfth district. J. B.
MM
1.000 Quarts of Liquor Mi«d
Norfolk, Vt, J mM 10.—Appro xi
1,000 quarts of Hqwr, valued
than $10,004, ware mM by
guards of the asrjr ysid to
4>; Is s raid on As nsval transport
•Mm, under orders of Rear Admiral
FUHy Andrew*, commandmsnt of the
Norfolk nary yard. Offlsan and m
art confined to thslr ship I
Information cam* to Admiral An
drews that a strong small of whisky
was ivtdsat in cargo bshig imloadsd
item the Sirsis on to bsrges slong
•ids for shipment to the naval supply
Station at lbs naval base. Waiting
-until the barges had been loaded, Ad
•Ural Andrews ^ordered s search of
had the ship thoroughly isorchod by
on board the
the vessel
Struts returned to Hampton
the Wsst
The wfciaky sosording to In
i received from Adwtral As
! SCRAPS or PATCH
BAR PRISON CELL
Jmn L. AnafitU TbnifM Ha
Wu Guilty but Jury Sajri
LnhiftM, June 12.—Scrape oi
paper prevented the conviction el
Jnm L Armfleld, hie president oi
the defunct Bank of ThiiiaeeHle for
tfibeulement of funds Crow the
hank.
I These sera pa of paper nyrmrtid
no tee left by Am'Md In place «(
j 1142,000 that was taki n from the
Bank nf Thnmusvllle, 120,000 of wtitrfc
i was than to the credit of the Baptiet
' Orphanage at Thomaeville aa a de
positor.
These wraps stand foe an impoel.i*
sum of atone jr when row pa red with
the rota of the realm owned hjr the
average North Carolinian, but they
become nor* Imposing still when
| hi fa nil with the total depoeiu of
*32»ft00 carried Uy the TbomasvllW
hank when It cloned Ita doors the
twentieth day of laat Auguit.
If Arm fie Id had known these acrape
1 of paper would iave him from a pris
on term, no doubt he would have re
mained la Aaaerka. He teemed to
have believed, however, that scrape
of paper, worthlaaa scrape moat of
them. wouMat save his hide and so
hit the grit to Mexico, where scrape
of paper are laaa highly respected.
The story ef these acnpa of paper
famish a background for a story
without parallel In banking aanals ta
North Carolina. They rsproeeat Ike
difference, according to the law of the
land at Interpreted at Armflekfs
trial, betwsn felonious tataat and lack
Or Mill, in theae mi in n day«
the psychology of tW situation mat
be cnnslisM* TW stories of Arn
phan children, the knock down Mi
Ml out method. employed to gat
Armflald Inak to his native heath,
the wnitd expreaeiona of a lot of
angry bank depositor*—all thase
thine* luM contributed to a pnpalar
conception of Am/laid at a devil In
carnate with real horni.
So was the feeling agates*
ArmfleM be*e that the praeacutta
doubted ita ability to cat a Jury that
could hear the caae impartially. Maay
men had to ba dietharged because af
their admitted feeling against the
defendant
Bat it turned oat tha» iliaiflakl
waant a devil at all. In all raapecte
*e apfwaret* to be re.y much Ilka
other men, and a very human eort af
person. Thla disarmed mneh feeling
at the trial in everybody's mind except
Armfield'a. He was confident, so
the local paper reports, that he would
receive the maximum asatence af
thirty yean in prison. 8a mneh
surprised was ha at his acquittal that
he actually reeoiled from the jury
that freed him. He could not baUavw
that they did not consider him a devil
still. After all he was a mere saan.
The Jury waa introduced to a miry
maxe of legal technicalities by the ex
pert attorneys far Armfield. His
lawyers argued that since there was a
note for every loan made to ArmflaM
aad the companies representing him
and every one properly entered span
the hooka of the bamk, there could
hare been aa fraudulent intent. Thar
rang the tlai|(h on that ward, and
moved for dismiaaal of the actios
toe*. Judge Long refuted and let it
go to the Jorjr. In Ma charge though
he wu carcfnl to tall the Juror* that
thay moat to eonrict Arufleld baUere
that at the time the money waa taken
from the bank there waa an Intent to
defraud the bank.
Enter the acrape of paper. The
Stated attorney* argued that It ia
that erery man intend* the natural
conaequencee of hla acta. Many of
the note* were unaecured by endova
et* other than Amflatd or hit com
paniea and thte cariliaanm they ar
gned. constituted itHibi of fhmdu
lent Intention*.
F armor ml Pwtm Claiw
Pilat Cow
^DwHhiMB, June 10 .--E. B Ooaort,
THE NEGRO IN AMERICA
CtMW Ckr— hliwitfan PmH
AWwt Cibrtd Rm«
Yuutba O mpaalM:
When tkt Ant mm of the Urn ad
State «m taken in 17M one In
•vary five wm a aagru, or, to be met,
IM ptr ml Two )wmi ago, when
the fourteenth tow— wm taken, om
person in every ton wm Mack. The
facte ere iaterweting, for they »how
that hi apite a# the well-known fecun
dity of the black race It ia not increas
ing « rapidly is this eoantry aa the
white race la. The wMte pupil, of
nxrie, hare added at III tan* to their
number by immigration and other
I tone through the offspring of tntmi
granta, eheieas the cdond race haa
had alBMMt no increane of that wrt
But the pwtwi waa noticeable even
before the great tide of immigration
betas hi the forttoa. In the fifty
yean between 17*0-1 MO the proper
ton of whttoa in oor population roee
from *0.7 per cent to M.2 per cant.
In the half century between 1870 and
lfN It went from M.2 to M.7 par
cent; that la, it roae mora rapidly
but not more atoadily than in the
earlier period. There ia tome reason
to think that the negroee were under
enumerated in the laet eeneoa—Dr.
Kelly Miller of Howard University
feele certain of W; hot even with the
rrviaed figures that he roggeet* the
proportion of white* would he SM per
cent. whereM in 1*10 it was only MA
A still Mete i—rtrtli fact
brought out by the census Is the gra
dual shifting of the acgiu population
fro* Sooth to North, The five
statoe of Sooth Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama, Miaaiaaippi and Louiaiana,
actually had thirty-eeren
fewer Mack ptnw in lt#0 than they
had in 1MI, The five itaUe of New
York, Pennsylvania. Indiana, Ohio aad
Illinois bad thrve hundred aad twenty
*efh.
With I
04 H, NMi •
colored birth rate, which mwii| to
| the cenaus authorities is not yet off -
set, aa it h in the mm «f the
race, Iif a gioatlj diminished
rata. It eeeau muonahle to believe
that the colored net wfll not thrive
so wall to the colder cttowt* of the
North and wader the confining condi
tions of industrial life as it has
thrived on the plantations of the
Sooth; bat the northward drift la nn
mietakable ft will take a long time
to make the wider distribution of the
nagvo socially aad poMtienllr appar
ent. No doabt there always be
more negroes In the 8ooth than to the
Norih; bat Judge Tourgoe's predic
tion of "eight blaek republics" to the
8outh la already diacreditad. The
negro ia moving oat of the "Black
Bolt" into a wider world.
fa Fall
Swtai im Dvtuua
Durham, June 10.—J. B.
recently appointed u district
for co-operative Mifcitiif of
wettern district, it wiViiif a tow
of the entire district, perfecting his
organization. Durham eoanty has at
present • signup of about 70 per cewt
of Ha farmer*. Meetings ars bring
held throughout the county by local
advocates of the system which art be
ing attended by a large w—her of
fmn. Plant art nnflwwy for
another campaign to tecure tigna
turts of tht farmers who bar* no* al
ready signed tht co-opera tire market
ing contracts. Two of the four local
warehousee hare been turned over to
the cooperative, and will be operated
under the new eystem thia season.
| Juno 10,—Tht
packa of the local fox
other hunter* in thit
failed to "make a dent" hi the Mho
of wily Reynard after a feat ttaeen
of fox hunting, and the cleeed nattn
here will not be ibtir.il Tht law
la tlaatit. Whtrt foxtt are a nui
they may be hunted at any
an ttfll teadar
MaCUME TO CONT1ST
HAYMORC
II PVflllAI IIMI IB 9VN99 rrt
cincti ttfc MiCdr* I#
Taka Lagal Actio*
Dubwy lip i rrw. Jaly I.
■. A. HtGiin win coatoat the Mi
iaatfam of R. L. Hijnm tor Um Rot
ate in thin district. MaCalrt, mm
PnM by NmW AiWw, of tarry, '
*h here today wiwln affWertU
NfMinf Irroarulartttea la Um Btofeae
primary N. Rarl Wad, tigtMer if
Daeda of Mm, and (Mail 1mm.
Member of the Rtobse Board of Dm- .
ttona, Mad* affidavits that rtaht pre
rMeta, to-wrt LamoatUb, BoyWe.
WBaon'a Store, Motr, frane, Pltnty
Knell, Cart Sandy Ridfa, aad Waat
Sandy Ridge, rant in returaa un
•worn to while up to tWa thae tba
retains from Tiliay'i precinct bar*
not bam raeaivrd at alt. All of wbkb
la contrary to law, aad tba
paaca and dignity of tba State.
Whereupon, Mr. MaGuire, arhooe OOM
Ination hinges upon tbiae or four
votes, doclaraa be will take action
to bar* the irregular return* thrown
out on the iroond of pooefcie fraad.
MaGuire haa retained Attorney ft
W. Hall to r«prM«nt his mUraata
here In the Matter.
tog Obliterated
St. Loots, J una 10.—Tin last of the
flam mounds, which skirted the
Mississippi Hwr in with St. I soil,
•ad wMcn pn this «Ky the nW
qoet, "The Mound City," is bate*
levelled to maks way for mm iM ptaM.
This last of tho old mounds, which
sra soppossd to havs bosa boBt la
prehistoric ttmss, Is sboot MO foot
in Isagth sad shoot SO foot wide.
Ths excavating fores* report that
spaars, arrow hoods sad poswliarty
aim| n fa^to to tV
m^wC£ in«teo. ^st bava
haoa tho sitae of homos of early 1
Louisiana. <
When St Loals was foondod there 1
were 2T of thoss moands leading from 1
the little city oa what wws callod bjr 1
icisotists tho "second hank" of tho 1
river. They wars striking parts of
ths landscaps in ths neighborhood »
sad impressed visiters to ths place. c
Whaa the dtjr becami a small town 1
ths miosdi caoasd it to ba callod tho I
'Monad Cltjr," although tho growth c
if ths town has ohMtsratsd moot of 1
tho traoos of the artificial earth 1
works. -s I*
PsWfcsrrj Crop is Now Bsimg
Marketed
Sanford, Jane 10.—Tho gathering
ind shipping of ths dowberry crop Is
well under way. Bala has interferred
with ytstrtag and pockjag to aoaso as
lant. It is now estimated that ap
proximately ISO cars of barrios will
to gathswd aad shipped from ths
terry boh this seaaoa. Tha crop
ihows aa Ineraase of shoot MO par
sewforor tho crop of teat pear, aad h
la reported that several handrsd ad
Uttonal acres will ha planted to daw
terries this fall. Ths crop this yaar
• of aa exceptionally ftoo quality aad
Ihoas that hare bosa shipped sold at
rood prices.
• .
"Did that patent
x>u*ht core rmtaM!
"Mmj, mi Ob naili
Ihtt waa wiappod immf the bottle
iIm got two WN di»
—Beaton Truacrtpt.
TwtfaMBf
to the toot of tnrth. And
M Kidney PUb have atood the
Mat la Mount Alrjr. No Mount Airy
Ola cm
by tMa twiee-tof
Mra. J. C. Hartia, IN «. Mate St,
iay»: "Doan'a Kidney Pllla cored Me
Km yean ago of a bad caae of back
tcbe. Mm I took Ooan'a, I
twfal patoa la my
toek ached aa I eoold hard* do
>mwili I ea« Dom*i Kidney
HOa rn.MMiafca ao Mffciy. I vat
i baa of thaaa at tka Weat Drag Co.,
laow tka JoHae EMridga Drag Man)
Mi whoa I lad tokM ataray bat*
reh a a toot daal bettor. Oae box
mcaaeooraadl
STL-.-.
id: "I nimiH Dom*. Kidaay
Pllla aa highly aa I did befora*. Dom*
M a» la goad health aad |M»
L«et<
MOTOR LICENSE FOR IMS
that fear* be«u
ri for run and fwn kf
Wo. 1 went tor the
r»»r i« THoa. B. Wilder, of
k brother-in-law of Ugkwtjr
>ioaer Frank Pift No. M aad 1<U
iMt to Senator Mark Squtree to
Every
•yclo m North Corah— win bar* ■
4( iieucd by the State thto year,
•Mhtr Um eahko to uwaad bjr Um
State, county or amakipaUty. The
ipedal Mnioo of tko
lembly M away with tho ipufal U
■enee ptatea that eaaw tato rofao a
rear ago, and polio* department*
itreet departments, aad Um tike wtll
even to Um rufliajiat
of Um Cov
Ono dollar to Um f*o that will b*
an, aad with
one certification that th* aar to ae
ually owned by tho 8tato,
ity. No prhrataly owaad
•ilea operated by public officiate will
m lltui ooder pabBc lliwni. Th*
will coeer Um cott of Um
V' 'W?
Aryniuuw7 1W.D0V ptiawga?
«, 1MM Mala. MM tootor cycles
wd 90 dealers Wit Um ttcenssd fch
MT the |wr that It drawing to an aad.
r i total «f rtut 190,000 autaaM
11m. I.icmiaae for Um enauiag jnu
« expected to approach Um 900,000
■ark. Keceipto froai all eoureea dur
>g the jroar ♦3,000.000
On* tbouaaad ipecla] Ucenaet have
aen ordered lor the State highway
amaiaaion, numbered (m 1 to U>00. 1
Imp are duplkataa of the regular <
tatee, except the letter H stenciled to
M end. The flrat hundred will be i
Md for aerrlee ear* and the Mill- ]
if NO dtotiftvtod aaogf the main 1
inance and engineering can. In the 1
toe districts. Numbers fiw 100 to
M will fe to the First District, 900 '
> 290 to the Second District, and so <
Hide* Porck Fm AutoUta
ayton, IV. J, haa a big front parch en
la house, which Is oa Bingman's
Md at a point where there i« a sharp
■ret, aad for many years he haa sat
•ere to the evenings aad smoked his
Ipe without anything happening to
Ml But Monday ha was ha ring a
kg into the porch aad wrecking one
ad of it.
The automobiiiat paid for the
usage had went oa hit way aad the
otaustor seat for a carpenter, who
■orfcod all night pKlig a new aad
d the porch. The pttl ■■■>■> went
St to have another smoke, bat ha had
ardly tfltod Ms chair hack aad light
d his pipe when saathtr wtwwMe
une wMssing around the carve aad
kidded.
SIGN UP CLOSES
AS HOUSES OTSM
Cr*w«r« WW Wait WW U
QUI—d to Dmpmmd mm Am
ftalaigfc, Jmm 1$.—Tihm piwii
wha wait and aaa <k*t tha a—Una
ajrateai wUl do for tha (aiwn ipk
thli yaar affl b* ib>|id to traat tk*
«ak af thair IMS cnp to tka aitoi
aaarahutaaaa airordlm to today* aa
rmutv-MMnt frw Ralairh haadq*aart
ti of ilia Titmi Ct««ir< C» opwa
ti»a AaaaciaUoa.
Th« ofairta* af tha aaad
•avanty-flv. warahobiii af tka ana
ctaUoa will Hit tka aad af tka ap
portaaity wkitk farmars now km to
•iffn ay thia rwr*! crop wttk tka ar
f aniltd |IWWI»
8U tkauaaad aaw aiatm. thirty
million pmm4» af titacri and aaa
ha»« baan iddad within tkfaa moo tka
to tka aaamiattnii which la aaw tka
largaat c>-oparathra moilitlM to tka
United -Stotoa. with nar TJjM
fwwtri.
Sevan! aaatvrn North Caraltoa
rountiaa have now paaaad an to far
cant sign-op and intenaa n alligator
aaaociatioa to brtog tka avaraca alg»
up to 75 par cant af tka tabaaea raiatd
in aaatern North Caialiaa.
THoasanda of faraaara from aix
waatarn North Carolina iroaattoa
tatharad at Klkin yaaterday to cata
brata with Sorry county giwaa tka
■ign-op of ckiaa to M par east of tWr
tobacco and weicoaM Othrar J. Saa*.
axacativt nunafrr of tka aaaactolto*
af tobacco n a warm.
RECORD CROP IN VIR
GINIA
The wheat crop U om of tk« larfeet
wen is 7Mrs ind aatforariy pit
harvest in* will begin in
TIm tobacco (wun hare practlesl
y completed their task of
iot the crop.
This year than hat been a
iio® of food
from the beds to the
nrtually the oaths crop
aptliaally early htrrdt barring f«
The crop of t aha ceo to at
me. This to accounted for hi
by the fact that the
aw that that
they raiae the 1
ooney they will (M. Last yeai
ry was
bat this year at least Oris
Is being forfoMen and a Ik
«*d erep la la riew.
la Sooth Carolina the crop is so ad
'anced that "topping" will begin
a a ftutolgtol.
Interest in the fate of the
'pool" orgaatoetkm is still
rith
to have
ha new plan works hi practice
here to now a period of
ww that it retake to he
raiting hr the crop to